amazon to try to get a response to the family's suit. a company spokesperson told us they don't comment on pending litigation. coming up, just in time for halloween, a curated collection of morbid curiosities. >> and why so many people have been longing, dying to get into this one-of-a-kind museum. you're watching "world news

? this is halloween ? ? this is halloween ? ? this is halloween ? ? this is halloween ? ? scream in the dead of night ? ? this is halloween ? ? everybody make a scene ? ? trick or treat ? don't we love it now. everybody's waiting for the next surprise. >> you love this song. >> i do. it's my favorite. >> every commercial break. >> anyway, all about halloween. also my favorite holiday. and in case you missed it, that would be today. the most spook-tacular day of the year. >> and in honor of it we're getting a look inside a museum in brooklyn unlike any we've seen before. it's focusing on all things morbid. abc's will ganss killed it with this one. >> reporter: it's that time of year, and no matter how fast you run or how loud you scream -- [ scream ] -- you can't escape -- >> i am dracula.

jinks and morbid mayhem that october brings. especially here. we're here in brooklyn at the morbid anatomy museum, where folks have been dying to get in. some literally. but me, i've never felt more alive. >> it's alive! it's alive! it's alive! >> reporter: for most of us skeletons and spooky stories are just a halloween thing. but at the museum of morbid anatomy death is a year-round theme. >> what we love all year round everyone else loves for one month, and that month is october. around this time. >> reporter: museum co-founder joanna ebenstein has done more than her fair share of digging when it comes to studying what happens after we go six feet under. her fascination with death began a long time ago. >> i was very lucky that my dad kind of wanted me to be a science geek. so he really encouraged this love for me. to put dead animals in when i was a little kid and he also bought me my first taxidermy kid when i was like 14 or 15. [ scream ]

years, and the museum was born. shining a new light on some dark subject matter. >> what i hope people take away from visiting is to question our own attitudes about death. not to say it's good or bad but just through showing all of these objects and books that have all this information about the ways in which different people in different times and places have dealt with death, to urge people to question our own attitudes. >> reporter: i certainly began questioning my own attitudes about death, probably when joanna put a real human skull into my hands. >> i am really freaking out that i am holding this in my hands right now. >> do you want me to make it? >> not that i'm scared of it. i just can't believe that that's what just happened. >> reporter: but that skull, which by the way belonged to an indian man who died in the '30s,

at the museum. >> i don't know if you guys have heard of something called santa muerta. >> does it main saint death? >> yeah, literally means saint or holy death. this is a folk tradition that emerged in mexico. a female figure of death kind of like the grim reaper is worshiped as a saint so she can be on an altar next to the virgin of guadalupe and other sorts of figures. it's seen by some people as satanic but by practitioners it's just seen as one of many saints or holy figures that can intercede on your behalf. this is a lot of people's favorite object in the entire museum. it is two ducklings. so together it is not really a two-headed duckling. >> they were not born like that? >> they were not born like that. >> reporter: in fact, blame tonight full moon or some kind of enchantment but after a while i started acting like some of the museum's inhabitants. safe to say there's something for every maturity level at the museum of morbid anatomy including those with an affinity for intellectual history and art. of the dead animal variety. one piece in particular stood out. ? >> so this is the centerpiece

this is a piece called the kittens' wedding by a 19th century taxidermist, self-taught taxidermist named walter potter. it's 20 kittens engaged in a wedding ceremony. this guy's pissed off because he thinks the bride is marrying the wrong kitten. >> reporter: despite being surrounded by dead kittens, by artwork made of human hair and human teeth for sale, like our favorite horror movies i couldn't look away. but why, why especially this time of year do we dare examine things we usually find so spooky? >> i think t mystery, a sense of pleasure in the dark side, a sense of laughing at death. >> reporter: although i've yet to sign up for my first taxidermy class, and yes the museum offers them, i was way less creeped out than i expected to be. from the museum of morbid anatomy in brooklyn, will ganss, abc news. >> what does it say about will that he was less creeped out than he expected to be? >> our halloween spectacular. anybody have change for a 10? >> kind of cold in here.

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? close my eyes and leap ? ? if i can try ? ? defying gravity ? ? kiss me good-bye ? ? i'm defying gravity ? ? and you won't bring me down ? >> all right. that's pretty good. i see you have the audience stuffed with your people. but i'm not throwing away my shot. oh, no. i'm not throwing away my shot. hey, yo. just like my country i'm young scrappy and hungry and i'm not throwing away my shot. i'm-a get a scholarship to king's college, i probably shouldn't brag but dag i amaze and astonish. the problem is i've got a lot of brains but no polish. i've got to holler just to be heard with every word i drop knowledge. i'm a diamond in the rough -- >> what are you doing? >> i'm rapping. >> is that what it's supposed to be? >> i guess i'm not going to win the sing-off. >> no. i think that's pretty safe to say. >> but i've got something even better i can probably take you out on.

>> yeah. >> take it away, alex. >> watch out. take your broom out of here. just wait. >> i'm ready for you. >> ready? ? juju on that beat ? ? >> are you trying to dance? is that the juju on the beat? want to see a real juju on that beat? >> uh-huh. >> guys, guys, that is not juju on the beat. this is juju on the beat. ? do this dance now ? ? juju on the beat ? >> i can't win at anything, can i? you've got juju to do juju on the beat. might as well dance us off together, shall we? >> let's do it. ? lucking and bucking and ready to fight ? ? i've got my cousin ? ? he got me ? ? i'm a deep trick ? ? besides drinking and having parties and having some fun ? ? walked in this party ?

up...lock her up... trump supporters chanting lock her up at a rally here in las vegas....referencing hillary clinton's latest email bombshell... good morning las vegas! i'm ... and i'm xxx.... the time now is ... let's get started with 13 first alert meteorologist gre halloween forecast... ((ad-lib)) with pacific moisture moving away from the southern nevada area today, breezy conditions will take over and mainly sunny skies look to return. high temperatures will continue to fall and low to mid 70s will be common through the city; and 25 mph today and this will last into the night including trick-or-treating hours between 7pm and 10pm. during this time, temperatures look to range between 68 and 62 degrees. tuesday we will bottom out in the upper 60s and lower 70s;